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Articles 1 - 21 of 21
Full-Text Articles in Law
Debtor In Possession Financing: The Jursidiction Of Canadian Courts To Grant Superpriority Financing In Ccaa Applications, Janis Sarra
Dalhousie Law Journal
Restructuring of insolvent corporations can be an effective means of a voiding the social and economic consequences of firm failure. Key to successful restructuring is financing (called DIP financing) in the interim period during which the corporation is attempting to develop a viable business plan that is acceptable to stakeholders. Canadian courts have exercised their inherent jurisdiction to grantsuch financing. A recent case before the Supreme Court of Canada settled. However, there continue to be challenges to the courts'jurisdiction. This article suggests that the degree of uncertainty created by the courts' granting of DIP financing has been exaggerated and that …
Arbitrators Should Write Opinions For Parties And For Courts, Josef Rohlik
Arbitrators Should Write Opinions For Parties And For Courts, Josef Rohlik
Saint Louis University Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Drug Treatment Courts And Emergent Experimentalist Government, Michael C. Dorf, Charles F. Sabel
Drug Treatment Courts And Emergent Experimentalist Government, Michael C. Dorf, Charles F. Sabel
Vanderbilt Law Review
Despite the continuing "war on drugs," the last decade has witnessed the creation and nationwide spread of a remarkable set of institutions, drug treatment courts. In drug treatment court, a criminal defendant pleads guilty or otherwise accepts responsibility for a charged offense and accepts placement in a court-mandated program of drug treatment. The judge and court personnel closely monitor the defendant's performance in the program and the program's capacity to serve the mandated client. The federal government and national associations in turn monitor the local drug treatment courts and disseminate successful practices. The ensemble of institutions, monitoring, and pooling exemplifies …
Getting Their Feet Wet: The Supreme Court And The Practical Implementation Of Treaty Rights In The Marshall Case, Phillip Saunders
Getting Their Feet Wet: The Supreme Court And The Practical Implementation Of Treaty Rights In The Marshall Case, Phillip Saunders
Dalhousie Law Journal
Judicial decisions which recognize aboriginal or treaty rights to natural resources inevitably lead on to a process of negotiation, as governments and aboriginal and other users of the resource define the access and management regimes which allow for practical implementation of the legal rights. Courts should be cognizant of the impact of their decisions on such negotiations, and provide adequate clarity and substantive guidance to negotiators. This article considers the decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Marshall case from this perspective, and details the shortcomings which made the prospects for successful negotiations less favourable. The weaknesses in …
Removing A "Section 96" Judge: An Historical Case Study, Barry Cahill
Removing A "Section 96" Judge: An Historical Case Study, Barry Cahill
Dalhousie Law Journal
The creation of the Canadian Judicial Council in 1971 and the gradual disappearance of county and district court judges into the superior court judiciary filled a lacuna in the Constitution Act, 1867. The tenure of county court judges was less secure than that of superior court judges, which was constitutionally entrenched and protected. The Judges Act, passed originally to provide for the removal of county court judges, articulated a mechanism which was extended to superior court judges at about the same time as county and district courts were beginning to disappear from the Canadian judicial scene. The lack of such …
Litigation In The United States And Mexico: A Comparative Overview, Robert M. Kossick, Jr.
Litigation In The United States And Mexico: A Comparative Overview, Robert M. Kossick, Jr.
University of Miami Inter-American Law Review
No abstract provided.
German Law Paves The Way For Mandatory Mediation, Nadja Alexander
German Law Paves The Way For Mandatory Mediation, Nadja Alexander
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Effective as of 1 January 2000, the Federal Government of Germany has introduced legislation permitting all German states (Laender) to introduce mandatory court-connected mediation with respect to certain kinds of civil disputes.
The Problem Of Obtaining Evidence For International Criminal Courts, Jacob Katz Cogan
The Problem Of Obtaining Evidence For International Criminal Courts, Jacob Katz Cogan
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
International criminal courts will be judged by their fairness to defendants as well as to victims. In a very practical way, such claims will hinge, inter alia, on the ability of prosecutors and defendants to have reasonable access to probative evidence. But international criminal courts depend on states to provide them with evidence or access to evidence. The obligation of states to cooperate with international criminal tribunals in the production of evidence was at issue in the recent decision of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Blaki case (1997). That judgment and the provisions of the …
International Courts And American Courts, A. Mark Weisburd
International Courts And American Courts, A. Mark Weisburd
Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Quiet Demise Of Deference To Custom: Malpractice Law At The Millenium, Philip G. Peters Jr.
The Quiet Demise Of Deference To Custom: Malpractice Law At The Millenium, Philip G. Peters Jr.
Faculty Publications
According to conventional wisdom, tort law allows physicians to set their own standard of care. While defendants in ordinary tort actions are expected to exercise reasonable care under the circumstances, physicians traditionally have needed only to conform to the customs of their peers. However, judicial deference to physician customs is eroding. Gradually, quietly and relentlessly, state courts are withdrawing this legal privilege. Already, a dozen states have expressly rejected deference to medical customs and another nine, although not directly addressing the role of custom, have rephrased their standard of care in terms of the reasonable physician, rather than compliance with …
The Civil Enforcement Of Human Rights Norms In Domestic Courts, Beth Van Schaack
The Civil Enforcement Of Human Rights Norms In Domestic Courts, Beth Van Schaack
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
This Article will attempt to make the case for the domestic civil action in defense of international human rights in the face of a potential threat to such litigation.
The Jurisdiction Of The International Criminal Court Over Nationals Of Non-Party States (Conference Remarks), Madeline Morris
The Jurisdiction Of The International Criminal Court Over Nationals Of Non-Party States (Conference Remarks), Madeline Morris
ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law
The Rome Treaty for an International Criminal Court (ICC) provides for the establishment of an international court with jurisdiction over genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
Abbeville County School District V. State: The Right To A Minimally Adequate Education In South Carolina, Jennifer L. Fogle
Abbeville County School District V. State: The Right To A Minimally Adequate Education In South Carolina, Jennifer L. Fogle
South Carolina Law Review
No abstract provided.
Personal Rights And Rule Dependence: Can The Two Co-Exist?, Matthew D. Adler
Personal Rights And Rule Dependence: Can The Two Co-Exist?, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
Constitutional doctrine is typically "rule-dependent." Typically, a constitutional litigant will not prevail unless she can show that a particular kind of legal rule is in force, e.g., a rule that discriminates against "suspect classes" in violation of the Equal Protection Clause, or that targets speech in violation of the First Amendment, or that is motivated by a religious purpose in violation of the Establishment Clause. Further, the litigant must typically establish a violation of her "personal rights." The Supreme Court has consistently stated that a reviewing court should not invalidate an unconstitutional governmental action at the instance of a claimant …
Recent Efforts To Change Discovery Rules: Advice For Draftsmen Of Rules For State Courts, Paul D. Carrington
Recent Efforts To Change Discovery Rules: Advice For Draftsmen Of Rules For State Courts, Paul D. Carrington
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Complicated Ingredients Of Wisdom And Leadership, Michael A. Fitts
The Complicated Ingredients Of Wisdom And Leadership, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Evaluating Mistakes In Intellectual Property Law: Configuring The System To Account For Imperfection, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Evaluating Mistakes In Intellectual Property Law: Configuring The System To Account For Imperfection, Maureen A. O'Rourke
Faculty Scholarship
In this Essay, the author argues that in assessing the performance of the intellectual property laws, it is useful to conceive of intellectual property law as a system comprised of both interacting decision-makers and other sets of law. Those decisionmakers include Congress, the PTO, and courts, and the other relevant laws include antitrust and contract. The author reviews the major intellectual property statutes, illustrating ways in which different institutions may be situated to correct the errors of another and how antitrust and contract also can work to correct errors in the scope of protection. The Essay concludes by arguing that …
Rights, Rules And The Structure Of Constitutional Adjudication: A Response To Professor Fallon, Matthew D. Adler
Rights, Rules And The Structure Of Constitutional Adjudication: A Response To Professor Fallon, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
Constitutional doctrine is typically rule-dependent. A viable constitutional challenge typically hinges upon the existence of a discriminatory, overbroad, improperly motivated, or otherwise invalid rule, to which the claimant has some nexus. In a prior article, Prof. Adler proposed one model of constitutional adjudication that tries to make sense of rule-dependence. He argued that reviewing courts are not vindicating the personal rights of claimants, but rather are repealing or amending invalid rules. IN a Commentary in this issue, Professor Fallon now puts forward a different model of constitutional adjudication, equally consistent with rule-dependence. Fallon proposes that a reviewing court should overturn …
Insurance Contracts And Judicial Decisions Over Whether Insurers Must Defend Insureds That Violate Constitutional And Civil Rights: An Historical And Empirical Review Of Federal And State Court Declaratory Judgments 1900-2000, Willy E. Rice
Faculty Articles
Empirical findings suggest that extralegal factors, such as geographic location, ethnicity, gender, disability, perceived sexual orientation, and age of third-party victims, influence judicial decisions as to whether liability carriers must defend or reimburse the costs of defending various lawsuits. After the introduction, Part II of this article presents a brief discussion of state and federal declaratory judgment statutes and of the public policy behind liability and indemnification insurance contracts. Part III examines the origin and scope of insurers’ duty to defend, duty to pay legal expenses, and duty to reimburse litigation costs when third-party victims sue policyholders. Part IV argues …
Strictly Scrutinizing Campaign Finance Restrictions (& The Courts That Judge Them), John Eastman
Strictly Scrutinizing Campaign Finance Restrictions (& The Courts That Judge Them), John Eastman
John C. Eastman
No abstract provided.
The Road To Bush V. Gore: The History Of The Supreme Court’S Use Of The Per Curiam Opinion, Laura K. Ray
The Road To Bush V. Gore: The History Of The Supreme Court’S Use Of The Per Curiam Opinion, Laura K. Ray
Laura K. Ray
No abstract provided.